DOWN AND OUT!

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 762, 24 December 1908, Page 2

DOWN AND OUT!

.«. CASTRO NO LONGER PRESIDENT. A FALSE" MOVE. GAME GOES TO GENERAL GOMEZ: DETAILS OF THE PL^x. i,BS ELECTBIC TELEGBAPB — «,o*-YIU3HT.j IPEB PBRSB ASHOOIATION.j Caracas, December 23. The frustration of a plot to assassinate General Gomez, Vice-Presi-dent of the Republic of Venezuela, and who is in power during the absence of President Castro, has completed President Castro's downfall. The conspirators intended to seize the administration and, with the army, to overawe the population. The prisoners include Cypriano Castro's brother. A document filed in the High Federal Court proposes to impeach Cypriano Castro for complicity in the plot. He is in Europe, where he went to undergo an operation. His money supplies have been stopped. General Gomez has issued a proclamation promising a decorous and pacific solution of all international disputes. i The decree of which Holland complained has been revoked, thus averting war between the two nations. ( (Received Dec. 24, 5.40 a.m.) Caracas, Dec. 23. President Gomez discovered thai Signer Cardenas, ex-President Castro's personall secretary, was entrusted with the task of inciting the assassination of Geueiwl Gomez, and a conspiracy, with the help of a mutinous commanded by President Castro's brother. General Gomez himself boldly arrested Colonel Castro, who accused Cardenas. The latter defiantly denied the plot. General Gomez had to pinion him thus breaking tho back of the plot, to prevent tho uso of a. revolver. CoUbnel Castro was then imprisoned, Dr Paul., ox-Foreign Minister, lias started for Europe to settle the Venezuelan international dispute.